(Editor's Note: Minyanville welcomes back Jessie Smith, who is sharing her journey from financial fiasco to fiscal fitness every Tuesday and Thursday in Going for Broke ... and Back.)“A journey

Almost nothing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarkable rise to wealth was conventional. There were no silver spoons, no Ivy League degrees, no friends in high places.Instead, Adelson became one of t

Kirk Kerkorian, the 92-year-old billionaire investor, so-called father of the mega-resort, and richest man in Los Angeles, worked odd jobs as a boy during the Great Depression and never went to high

Don’t sit around in shock, take action.The shock of being laid off barely had time to set in before Jim Wessel began looking for another job.Released as purchasing director for a resort one Fri

Thanksgiving is all about family gathering around a table laden with food, right?But there aren’t any rules about where the table is placed. Or if there are rules, maybe it’s time to brea

I’ve been in South America this week, speaking nine times in five days, interspersed with lots of meetings. The conversation kept coming back to the prospects for the dollar, but I was just as

This week, Pete Schiff discussed what instances homes are investments, when they're speculation, and when they're just a place to live. And I agree with Schiff that for most people who own and live i

A heated debate currently involves whether we’ll experience inflation or deflation down the road. This debate is of high interest to market participants because conditions of inflation or defla

The market for timeshares, that odd sliver of the luxury vacation business that has more or less flourished since the 1970s, has never been worse. Americans now own 1.5 million timeshares around the

In the business of sports, there’s been a lot of ink spent in the past week on examining the groundbreaking, yet still pending, sale of the woeful New Jersey Nets to Russian billionaire Mikhail